I don’t know who you are, reading this little blog of mine (thanks!), but I’m going to make the big assumption you don’t like Enya. Unless you are, like, one of my friend’s moms who rely on “Caribbean Blue” to get you through the daily household chores. Or a Grammy voter. Again, thanks for the…
Trying to properly sum up the career of Osaka’s Satanicpornocultshop (really) from the beginning is akin to explaining String Theory to an especially uninterested canary. So, all you really need to know going into solid-introduction “Segare” is they’ve been doing this since 1998 and have released a lot of albums and EPs. This new track…
Who knew phone noises could be so weird? Producer WSZ80 rounds out the new Miila And The Geeks 7″ Three Songs with a remix of the group’s “Worst Words,” which makes great use of “the number you have reached is not in service” messages throughout his version of the song. The rest seems like a…
Tokyo-based label Diskotopia…read a good Japan Times profile this way…aren’t taking it too easy this summer despite pumping out music just waiting to play alongside an afternoon spent sitting on a beach towel. Matt Lyne, one of the imprint’s co-founders, produces under the name A Taut Line and has a new number online now, called…
Not to judge a place by a Wiki page alone, but Kuzuha city near Osaka looks like a pretty ho-hum locale. I’m sure the ballyhooed Kuzuha Mall delivers on great values and a bomb food court, but rarely is it a good sign that the shopping mall ends up being the highlight. Other points of…